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    "figure_name": "Vapor, Breath, Smoke, and Vanishing-Life Imagery",
    "technical_name": "Vapor, breath, mist, smoke, vanity, and fleeting-life imagery",
    "alternate_names": "vapor imagery; breath imagery; smoke imagery; mist imagery; hebel imagery; transience imagery",
    "page_slug": "vapor-breath-smoke-and-vanishing-life-imagery",
    "reader_category": "Mortality, brevity, vanity, frailty, judgment, and passing life / Vapor-breath imagery",
    "bullinger_class": "Supplemental biblical imagery form",
    "simple_definition": "Vapor and breath imagery pictures human life as brief, fragile, and quickly passing before God.",
    "technical_definition": "A transience motif in which breath, vapor, mist, smoke, sigh, or vanity language portrays mortality, creaturely frailty, futile striving, or disappearing judgment-security.",
    "source_hint": "Wave 45 final gap-sweep draft; distinguish mortality imagery from Holy Spirit breath/wind imagery and from ordinary weather language.",
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      "reference": "Job 7:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "my life is a breath",
      "explanation": "Breath imagery expresses the fragility and brevity of suffering life.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "page_slug": "vapor-breath-smoke-and-vanishing-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 39:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "every man ... is vapor",
      "explanation": "Human life is reduced to a fleeting breath before God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "page_slug": "vapor-breath-smoke-and-vanishing-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 62:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "men ... are a breath",
      "explanation": "Social rank is relativized by breath-like transience.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "figure_name": "Vapor, Breath, Smoke, and Vanishing-Life Imagery",
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      "reference": "Ps. 78:33",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "their days vanish like a breath",
      "explanation": "Judgment shortens life into quickly passing breath.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "figure_name": "Vapor, Breath, Smoke, and Vanishing-Life Imagery",
      "page_slug": "vapor-breath-smoke-and-vanishing-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 90:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "years ... like a sigh",
      "explanation": "Moses portrays life under wrath as passing like a sigh.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
      "source_section": "Wave 45 final gap sweep rare forms/idioms/missing motif categories expansion",
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      "representative": "no",
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      "example_id": "EX45_0086",
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      "page_slug": "vapor-breath-smoke-and-vanishing-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 102:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "my days pass away like smoke",
      "explanation": "Smoke imagery pictures wasting life under affliction.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "draft_normalized_scripture_example",
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      "page_slug": "vapor-breath-smoke-and-vanishing-life-imagery",
      "reference": "Ps. 144:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "man is like a breath",
      "explanation": "Human days are compared to a passing shadow.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Eccl. 1:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "vanity of vanities",
      "explanation": "Hebel language portrays life's vapor-like futility under the sun.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "Hos. 13:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "like the morning mist ... like smoke",
      "explanation": "Idolatrous Israel is compared to rapidly disappearing mist and smoke.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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      "reference": "James 4:14",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "you are a mist",
      "explanation": "Human planning is corrected by the vapor-like brevity of life.",
      "certainty": "certain",
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